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Serious Readers: Level 2 - DONE!101. Crazy For You - 6/5
102. Curve Ball - 6/6
103. The Sweetest Thing - 6/8
104. Mathilda, SuperWitch - 6/9
105. Taming the Beast - 6/9
106. Beyond Shame - 6/10
107. Heaven and Hell - 6/11
108. Three Wishes - 6/12
109. Sommersgate House - 6/14
110. The Ugly Girlfriend - 6/14
111. Destructively Alluring - 6/14
112. Beast - 6/15
113. The Witness - 6/16
114. Fate's Edge - 6/18
115. The Italian - 6/18
116. On the Plus Side - 6/19
117. Noah - 6/19
118. Branded by Fire - 6/20
119. Axel - 6/27
120. Enraptured - 6/28
121. Shameless - 6/29
122. The Bride - 6/30
123. You Can't Make an Omelet - 6/30
124. On Cherry Hill - 6/30
125. Bite Me - 7/2
126. Naked in Death - 7/2
127. Playing for Keeps - 7/6
128. The Art of Breathing - 7/7
129. Revelations - 7/8
130. Born of Night - 7/10
131. The Unsung Hero - 7/13
132. Slide - 7/14
133. Aftermath: Guts and Glory - 7/14
134. Smooth Talking Stranger - 7/15
135. Roane - 7/16
136. How to Misbehave - 7/16
137. May Day - 7/16
138. An Agreement Among Gentlemen - 7/17
139. Forever Promised - 7/18
140. Fantasy Lover - 7/19
141. The Trouble With Tony - 7/20
142. Savage Awakenings - 7/21
143. A Reason To Believe - 7/21
144. Illumination - 7/22
145. Crush on You - 7/23
146. To Tame A Highland Warrior - 7/24
147. Sugar Springs - 7/24
148. Until November - 7/25
149. Magic Bites - 7/26
150. A Tender Rough - 7/27
151. The Proposition - 7/28
152. Mahu Fire - 7/28
153. Penelope - 7/30
154. Pura Vida - 7/30
155. Totally Captivated, Volume 4 - 7/30
156. Painting Fire on the Air - 7/31
157. The Promise - 8/1
158. Ball & Chain - 8/2
159. Unleashed - 8/3
160. Seducing Cinderella - 8/3
161. Carnal Intentions - 8/5
162. Bone Rider - 8/6
163. A Casual Weekend Thing - 8/7
164. Beauty from Pain - 8/7
165. Do-over - 8/7
166. Laid Bear - 8/7
167. Gives Light - 8/8
168. Wildest Dreams - 8/9
169. The Shift - 8/10
170. Sixty Five Hours - 8/10
171. The Warlord Wants Forever - 8/11
172. Not My Spook! - 8/12
173. Embattled Hearts - 8/12
174. Christmas Kitsch - 8/13
175. The Many Sins of Lord Cameron - 8/14
176. Better Than Good - 8/14
177. Sinner's Gin - 8/16
178. Perfection - 8/21
179. Only Love - 8/21
180. Bear Necessities - 8/21
181. Night Pleasures - 8/22
182. Beyond Control - 8/26
183. Shine Not Burn - 8/27
184. Blaze of Memory - 8/27
185. Beautifully Damaged - 8/28
186. The Icing on the Cake - 8/29
187. Halfway to the Grave - 9/1
188. Slammed - 9/2
189. Glory in Death - 9/3
190. Animal Magnetism - 9/4
191. Tall, Tatted and Tempting - 9/4
192. It Had to Be You - 9/5
193. Magic Burns - 9/5
194. Hell or High Water - 9/7
195. Friend-Zoned - 9/7
196. Sweet as Sin - 9/8
197. One Good Earl Deserves a Lover - 9/9
198. The Highlander's Touch - 9/11
199. A Modern Wicked Fairy Tale: Rapunzel - 9/11
200. Tempting Danger - 9/13
I don't think I'll manage to read another 100 this year, but I want to see how far I can get.Level 2 of serious readers challenge
Duration: 09/15/14 - 12/31/14
Finished: 9/100
September
✔ 101: Against the Wall | Julie Prestsater 09/15/14 ★★★★
✔ 102: The Good, the Bad, and the Undead | Kim Harrison 09/18/14 ★★★★
✔ 103: Breakfast at Darcy's | Ali McNamara 09/19/14 ★★★★★
✔ 104: The Body Finder | Kimberly Derting 09/19/14 ★★★★★
✔ 105: Icons | Margaret Stohl 09/22/14 ★★★
✔ 106: The Final Piece | Maggi Myers 09/23/14 ★★★★
✔ 107: The Witness | Nora Roberts 09/23/14 ★★★★★
✔ 108: Succubus Dreams | Richelle Mead 09/25/14 ★★★★.5
✔ 109: Dead Until Dark | Charlaine Harris 09/27/14 ★★★★.5
✔ 110: The Gathering | Kelley Armstrong 09/29/14 ★★★★
✔ 111: Blood Debt | Nancy Straight 09/30/14 ★★★★★
Katie wrote: "Serious Readers: Level 2 - DONE!101. Crazy For You - 6/5
102. Curve Ball - 6/6
103. The Sweetest Thing - 6/8
104. Mathilda, SuperWitch..."
Congrats!
I probably don't finish this level but I have a decent dent in it: Level 2:
101:Vampire Bites: Bite-sized Vampire Stories from Favorite Authors-Lori Devoti ★★★
102:A Laird For Christmas-Gerri Russell ★★★★
103: Silent Revenge-Laura Landon ★★★
104:All I Need Is You/Wedding Survivor-Julia London ★★★★
105: Fiancé by Friday-Catherine Bybee ★★★★
106: Archangel's Legion-Nalini Singh ★★★★
107: Olive Kitteridge-Elizabeth Strout ★★★★
108: The Earl's Enticement-Collette Cameron ★★★★
109: This Laird of Mine-Gerri Russell ★★★★
110: Dangerous Affairs-Diana Miller ★★★
111: Styx and Stones-Carola Dunn ★★★★
112: The Pusher: An 87th Precinct Novel-Ed McBain ★★★★
113: Abandon-Carla Neggers ★★★★
114: Skies of Fire-Zoe Archer ★★★★
115: Risk Worth Taking, A-Laura Landon ★★★
116:When Day Breaks-Maya Banks ★★★
117: After the Storm-Maya Banks ★★★★
118: Agatha Raisin and the Busy Body-MC Beaton ★★★★
119: Snowbound-Larissa Ione ★★★
120: Highlander Betrayed-Lauren Wittig ★★★★
121: Forbidden City-Alex Archer ★★★★
122: Highlander Avenged-Lauren Wittig
123: And Justice There Is None-Deborah Crombie
124: Song of the Road-Dorothy Garlock
125: Double Enchantment-Kathryne Kennedy
I don't think I'll be finishing a full second 100 books in the next few months but here goes anyway :DSeptember
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October
101. Something Wiki
102. A Tale for the Time Being
103. Anne's House of Dreams
104. The Catcher in the Rye
105. Small Favor
106. Seven for a Secret
107. The Book of Life
108. The Last Guardian
109. Luigi's Freedom Ride
110. Rainbow Valley
111. The Miniaturist
112. Hello From the Gillespies
Very very behind on my tracking of books. Finished 200 on August 22nd. Catching up now, and moving on to Level 3.My full 2nd hundred is on Post 93.
Well done everyone! See you on next level. ☺
Level 2October 21, 2014-
(42/100)
1. The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen 10/22/14
2. Edge of Evil by J.A. Jance 10/24/14
3. Skin by Mo Hayder 10/26/14
4. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman 10/26/14
5. Love You More (Detective D.D. Warren, #5) by Lisa Gardner 10/27/14
6. Deeper than the Dead by Tami Hoag 10/30/14
7. Catch Me by Lisa Gardner 10/31/14
8. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith 11/1/14
9. The Risk of Darkness by Susan Hill 11/5/14
10. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl 11/6/14
11. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 11/6/14
12. 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill 11/9/14
13. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy 11/9/14
14. Angel's Tip by Alafair Burke 11/11/14
15.Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger 11/13/14
16. Gone by Lisa Gardner 11/13/14
17. Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner 11/15/14
18. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson 11/19/14
19. 1st to Die by James Patterson 11/19/14
20. Rules Of Prey by John Sandford 11/20/14
21. Deliverance by James Dickey 11/21/14
22. The Immortals by J.T. Ellison 11/24/14
23. Vicious by Kevin O'Brien 11/28/14
24. One Kick by Chelsea Cain 12/1/14
25. Shadow Prey by John Sandford 12/3/14
26. Fear Nothing by Lisa Gardner 12/6/14
27. Look Again by Lisa Scottoline 12/7/14
28. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson 12/4/14
29. The Vows of Silence by Susan Hill 12/9/14
30. Eyes of Prey by John Sandford 12/10/14
31. The Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver 12/13/14
32. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 12/14/14
33. The Chemistry of Death by Simon Beckett 12/17/14
34. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 12/18/14
35. At the Stroke of Madness by Alex Kava 12/20/14
36. The Zero Hour by Joseph Finder 12/20/14
37. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls 12/23/14
38. The Giver by Lois Lowry 12/23/14
39. The Sportswriter by Richard Ford 12/27/14
40. The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty 12/29/14
41. The Face Of Deception by Iris Johansen 12/30/14
42. Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis 12/30/14
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Level 2October 24, 2014-
(102/200)
101. Blackjack: Wicked Game by Sam J.D. Hunt 10/24/14 ✔
102. The Invitation Release by Roxy Sloane 10/28/14 ✔
103. Counting Stars by Alannah Carbonneau 11/3/14 ✔
104. Intrigued & Enchanted by Eva Simone 11/10/14 ✔
105. A Safe Surrender by Alannah Carbonneau 11/14/14 ✔
106. Mistletoe & Hollywood: An Eversea Series Novella & a Desire Resort Series Novella by Natasha Boyd 11/16/14 ✔
107. The Mighty Storm by Samantha Towle 11/22/14 ✔
108. Wethering the Storm by Samantha Towle 11/26/14 ✔
109. Try Me by Olivia Cunning 11/27/14 ✔
110. Follow by J.A. Huss 11/29/14 ✔
111. Like by J.A. Huss 11/30/14 ✔
112. Block by J.A. Huss 12/1/14 ✔
113. Status by J.A. Huss 12/2/14 ✔
114. Profile by J.A. Huss 12/2/14 ✔
115. Home by J.A. Huss 12/14/14 ✔
116. Trashed by Jasinda Wilder 12/24/14 ✔
117. Burned by Tara Sivec 12/30/14 ✔
❿Tea❿ wrote: "Welcome to Level 2, Kimberly ☺"Thank you!!
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112. Fallout
113. The Fault in Our Stars - currently reading
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116. A Game of Thrones
117. Bite Club - currently reading
118. Last Breath
119. Black Dawn
120. Bitter Blood
121. Fall of Night
122. Daylighters
123. Barely Breathing
124. Out of Breath
125. Crank
126. Glass
127. Born at Midnight - currently reading
128. The Fall
129. Talon
130. Masquerade
131. Revelations
132. Relentless
133. Until I Die
134. The Birth of Venus
135. I Am the Messenger
136. The Ice Princess
137. Pointe - currently reading
138. Defiance - currently reading
139. Deception
140. Deliverance
141. Slammed
142. Gravity
143. These Broken Stars
144. Six Months Later - currently reading
145. How to Say Goodbye in Robot
146. Cinder
147. Dune
148. Princess of the Midnight Ball
149. Dairy Queen
150. This Song Will Save Your Life
151. The Iron Trial
152. Afterworlds
153. The 5th Wave - currently reading
154. The Infinite Sea
155. Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy
156. Take a Bow
157. Breathe
158. Dash & Lily's Book of Dares - currently reading
159. Prodigy
160. Blood Red Road
161. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
163. The Host
164. Black City
165. Summerland
167. Shatter Me
168. The Elite - currently reading
169. The One
170. The Dream Thieves
171. Angelfall
172. Angelfire
173. My Life Next Door
174. Need
175. Sweet Evil
176. Crown of Midnight
177. The Thief
178. Panic - currently reading
179. Private
180. Since You've Been Gone
181. Dark Triumph
182. Mortal Heart
183. Mind Games
184. The Space Between
185. Fell
186. Tangled
187. Biggest Flirts
188. The Falconer
189. Catch a Falling Star
190. The Art of Lainey
191. The Sweetness of Salt
192. The First Battle - currently reading
193. Rose by Any Other Name - currently reading
194. The Haven
195. A Girl Called Fearless
196. Shiver
197. Don't Stop Now
198. 7 Clues to Winning You
199. Make Lemonade
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Finished Level 2 - on to Level 3 - Message 107
Completed in post 36: /topic/show/...I'm not going to level 3, though. I know I'll never read another hundred books in just one month. -_-
Yzabel wrote: "Completed in post 36: /topic/show/...I'm not going to level 3, though. I know I'll..."
You can still come join :) See how far into level 3 you can get. It's fun scanning other's messages to see what they've read.
Kelly wrote: "You can still come join :) See how far into level 3 you can get. It's fun scanning other's messages to see what they've read."Hmm, true. But it'll be just for the sake of recording my reads, then. Nothing more. :)
Yzabel wrote: "Hmm, true. But it'll be just for the sake of recording my reads, then. Nothing more. :) "Just that. ☺
See ya on level 3!
Same as Chris. ☺
Chris wrote: "Woohoo! Finally Finished!"
Well done Chris
Yay! I finished this and just scraped into level 3 with a few books./topic/show/...
Not bad since I doubled my original reading goal for the year! I blame all those team challenges!
FINISHED!!Level 2
101. Crash 7-9-14
102. Days of Blood and Starlight 7-10-13
103. Racing in the Rain 7-17-14
104. Golden 7-24-14
105. School of Charm 7-27-14
106. Katrina 7-29-14
107. Ghosts Child 7-29-14
108. The Girl Behind the Glass 7-29-14
109. Listen 8-1-14
110. A Coal Miners Bride 8-2-14
111. Escape Under the Forever Sky 8-5-14
112. Loud Awake and Lost 8-8-14
113. Storm 8-9-10
114. Leisl and Po 8-10-14
115. Before I Die 8-14-14
116. Second Life of Abigail Walker 8-15-14
117. East 8-17-14
118. Meaning of Maggie 8-18-14
119. Messages From Heaven 8-19-14
120. Dark Companion 8-21-14
121. Frozen 8-23-14
122. Ballad of Lucy Whipple 8-25-14
123. Slammed 8-27-14
124. If You Find Me 8-29-14
125. Starbird Murphy and the World Outside 8-31-14
126. The Vanishing Season 9-2-14
127. Zel 9-3-14
128. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 9-7-14
129. Through to You 9-9-14
130. The Spindlers 9-12-14
131. In the After 9-14-15
132. Chasing the Milky Way 9-18-14
133. Caged Graves 9-19-14
134. The Fever 9-21-14
135. Heart is a Lonely Hunter 9-24-14
136. Mans Best Hero 9-25-14
137. A Girl Called Problem 9-28-14
138. The Opposite of Love 9-30-14
139. Baby 10-1-14
140. One Eye Laughing 10-2-14
141. Love in the Time of Global Warming 10-4-14
142. A Bad Boy Can be Good For A Girl 10-4-14
143. A Swift Pure Cry 10-5-14
144. The Girl From the Well 10-7-14
145. In the End 10-10-14
146. Dont Look Back 10-11-14
147. The Night Tourist 10-12-14
148. Evil Librarian 10-14-14
149. Honey Queen 10-14-14
150. Salt and Storm 10-17-14
151. Rain Reign 10-17-14
152. Christmas After All 10-20-14
153. Ruined 10-23-14
154. The Secret Year 10-25-14
155. Returning to Shore 10-26-14
156. Imaginary Girls 10-28-14
157. The Good Sister 11-01-14
158. The Zoo At The Edge of the World 11-02-14
159. Between the Lines 11-03-14
160. Fiona Thorn and the Carapacem Spell 11-05-14
161. Walk Two Moons 11-07-14
162. The Alchemist 11-8-14
163. Saving Lucas Biggs 11-11-14
164. Until it Hurts to Stop 11-14-14
165. Blue Jacket 11-14-14
166. Anna and the French Kiss by Perkins 11-18-14
167. Rooms by Oliver 11-20-14
168. Inkheart 11-21-14
169. Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast 11-22-14
170. A Tale Dark and Grimm 11-23-14
171. Neverhome by Laird Hunt 11-25-14
172. Deluge 11-30-14
173. Gathering of Days 12-1-14
174. Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Curtis 12-3-14
175. This Star Wont go Out by Esther Earl 12-5-14
176. The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey 12-7-14
177. Young Elite by Marie Lu 12-12-14
178. Lies We Tell Ourselves 12-14-14
179. Let it Snow 12-15-14
180. Things They Carried 12-17-14
181. In a Glass Grimmly 12-19-14
182. All Four Stars 12-20-14
183. Spirit Keeper 12-23-14
184. Time of the Fireflies 12-25-14
185. And We Stay 12-28-14
186. The Smile 12-29-14
187. Antigoddess 12-31-14
Didn't get too far...100. L.E. Modesitt - The Chaos Balance
101. Catherine Coulter - Target
102. Tanya Huff - The Future Falls
103. Mercedes Lackey - Closer to Home
104. Catherine Coulter - The Edge
105. Jeffrey Archer - Best Kept Secret
106. Catherine Coulter - Riptide
107. L.E. Modesitt - Darksong Rising
108. L.E Modesitt - The White Order
109. Preston & Child - Gideon's Sword
110. Catherine Coulter - Hemlock Bay
111. L.E Modesitt - Colors of Chaos
112. Catherine Coulter - Eleventh Hour
113. C. J. Kincaid - Catalyst
114. Kristin Cashore - Fire
115. Cinda Chima - The Wizard Heir
116. Lee Child - Tripwire
Barely made it here, but showing up anyway for the record :)Level 2
101. Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture: A Novel of Mathematical Obsession by Apostolos Doxiadis *** (220 p, 12/19/2014)
102. Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts *** (336 p, 12/20/2014)
103. The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh **** (176 p, 12/20/2014)
104. The Sleeping Doll (Kathryn Dance, #1) by Jeffery Deaver *** (448 p, 12/23/2014)
105. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig (281 p, 12/28/2014)
106. Roadside Crosses (Kathryn Dance, #2) by Jeffery Deaver **** (397 p, 12/29/2014)
107. XO (Kathryn Dance, #3) by Jeffery Deaver **** (385 p, 12/30/2014)
108. Q & A by Vikas Swarup *** (295 p, 12/31/2014)
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✔101. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
✔102. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
✔103. The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde
✔104. The Light Princess by George MacDonald
✔105. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
October
✔106. Dune by Frank Herbert
✔107. A House Called Awful End by Philip Ardagh
✔108. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
✔109. The Grey King by Susan Cooper
✔110. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emma Orczy
November
✔111. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
✔112. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson
✔113. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
✔114. Cajun Night Before Christmas by James Rice
✔115. Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson
✔116. The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
✔117. Let Your Light Shine by Smart Kids
✔118. Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein
✔119. Little Luv Angel by Toby Bluth
✔120. The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore
✔121. The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco
✔122. The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
✔123. Oma and Bobo by Amy Schwartz
✔124. A Christmas Treasury by Greg Hildebrandt
✔125. I'm in Charge of Celebrations by Byrd Baylor
✔126. Silent Night Holy Night The Story of the Christmas Truce by Stephen Wunderli
✔127. The Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke
December
✔128. The Four Doors by Richard Paul Evans
✔129. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
✔130. The Good Women of China by Xinran
✔131. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allen Poe
✔132. This Time Together by Carol Burnett
✔133. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
✔134. My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business by Dick Van Dyke